Poppy 8

Poppy 8 August 11th 2014Legend has it that John McRae discarded his famous poem that first inspired the symbolism of the poppy with remembrance and it was other soldiers who salvaged the piece of paper with it written on.I'll quote an extract here as it is so beautiful;

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Notes on today's;I nearly fell down on my quest today... Only eight poppies in and the challenge to do one every day feels awkwardly big. A shocking contrast of pressures to those a hundred years ago. Today due to nursing a very poorly child with the noro virus my energy was sapped...hence tonight's blotch of a folded poppy...